Though a Bangladeshi family lost their business in the uproar over the death of George Floyd, they support demonstrators and helped medics treat them. On Friday morning, as dawn broke through the smoke hanging over Minneapolis, the Gandhi Mahal Restaurant was severely damaged by fire. Hafsa Islam, whose father owns the Bangladeshi-Indian restaurant with members of his […]
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Trump’s Looting Tweet Violates His Oath of Office | The Atlantic
The president is supposed to protect and defend the nation’s supreme laws. Shooting looters is unconstitutional. Overnight, protests of the egregious police killing of George Floyd roiled several American cities, including Minneapolis, where riots and looting frightened locals and destroyed livelihoods. A prudent president would have urged calm. On Twitter, President Donald Trump instead aggressively […]
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I Have Not Missed the Amy Coopers of the World | The New York Times
The video of a white woman threatening a black man in Central Park illustrates exactly why I’m so relieved to be spending more time inside. During a recent session conducted over Zoom, my therapist told me I was “glowing.” In the middle of a pandemic. I struggled to explain why until she prodded, “No crazy […]
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KARE 11 Investigates: Earlier Minneapolis police restraint death | KARE 11
A civil suit in 2010 accused police officers of improperly pinning a suspect face down – with an officer’s knee on his back – making it impossible to breathe. MINNEAPOLIS — Years before the nation heard George Floyd’s haunting words – ‘I can’t breathe’ – Minneapolis police officers were accused of improperly restraining another man. […]
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4 Minneapolis Police Officers Fired Over George Floyd Death | HuffPost
The move comes comes after a video showed an officer kneeling on the neck of Floyd, an unarmed Black man, on Monday. Four Minneapolis police officers were fired Tuesday following the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died on Monday after an officer kneeled on his neck while he was handcuffed on the […]
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A story to tell after 30 years of wrongful imprisonment | The Sunflower
Imagine spending 30 years of your life in prison for a capital crime you did not commit, knowing the people who put you behind bars could care less about your innocence. Well, Anthony Ray Hinton did just that, and he has a story to tell. On Thursday, Hinton, now 63 years old, told his story […]
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Miami: Community Protests After Officers Acquitted in Beating Death | EJI, A History of Racial Justice
On May 18, 1980, an all-white jury found four Miami Dade Police Officers not guilty in the beating death of Arthur McDuffie, a black man killed during a traffic stop. In response to the verdict, unrest broke out across Miami. On December 17, 1979, Mr. McDuffie — a 33-year-old African American insurance sales representative — […]
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He served nearly 44 years in solitary confinement. He was innocent of the crime. | The Washington Post
Albert Woodfox, 73, is an activist and the author of “Solitary,” a 2019 National Book Award finalist. Known as one of the Angola Three, along with Robert King and Herman Wallace, Woodfox served nearly 44 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He was released in 2016. You served more time in solitary […]
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Five Days of Unrest After Rodney King Beating Trial Ends in No Convictions | EJI, A History of Racial Justice
In late April 1992, residents of Los Angeles, California, took to the streets to protest after four police officers captured on video beating an unarmed black man named Rodney King during a traffic stop, a year earlier, faced no punishment at trial; three of the officers were acquitted while jurors were unable to agree on a verdict for […]
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules Racial Bias “Inevitable” in Criminal Justice System | EJI, A History of Racial Justice
On April 22, 1987, the United States Supreme Court rejected a black man’s death penalty appeal grounded in claims of racial inequality and instead accepted proven racial sentencing disparities as “an inevitable part of our criminal justice system.” In October 1978, a black man named Warren McCleskey was convicted of killing a white police officer […]
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